expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• deutomerite; posterior sac; posterior chamber - Medicine term
• women's quarters at the rear of a house

noun:

• queen of the Andes (Puya raimondii); titanka; puya de Raimondi

expression:

• it's the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's fault; LDP-blamer - from 自民が ..; used to mock critics of the LDP - slang - derogatory term ➜ 自民党

noun / ~する noun:

• helping a long-term employee to establish a branch of the same shop

noun:

• red-fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons); red-fronted brown lemur; southern red-fronted brown lemur

expression:

• via; through; by doing; by means of; using ➜ 事による

~の noun / noun:

• not covered (e.g. of a sports opponent); unobserved; under the radar - From English "no mark"
• unmarked (e.g. of a product); unlabelled

noun:

• compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain) ➜ 会意文字

noun:

• household of which half of the taxes were given to a designated person (ritsuryo system); vassal household allotted to a courtier ➜ 食封

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance; leading (the way); showing around
• information; notice; notification
• announcement (of one's arrival)
• invitation
• acquaintance; knowledge

noun / ~する noun:

• changing household registry; transfer (e.g. of one's name in the register)
• transferring to a different team - Sports term

noun:

• elder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority
• Genro (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)

noun:

• (inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; copycat
• follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)

noun:

• passion; sexual desire; lust
• attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance - four character idiom

noun:

• zun (ancient Chinese wine vessel, usu. made of bronze)

prefix:

• honorific prefix referring to the listener - archaism - honorific language

suffix / counter:

• counter for buddhas

noun:

• photo booth that prints out cards and stickers of the resulting photograph, which are then traded among friends - abbreviation - From English "print club"

noun:

• form of magic or divination (e.g. animating objects to act as the sorcerer's agent)

noun:

• Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)

noun:

• refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month ➜ 田遊び

noun:

• starfish; sea star; asteroid; any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea
• northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)

noun:

• flies; area over the stage of a theater (containing overhead lights, drop curtains, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• discarding; abandoning - archaism - Buddhism term
• variety of street performance from the Middle Ages ［ほうか］
• casting off one's attachments (in Zen) ［ほうげ］

noun:

• doctrine that all phenomena are produced from consciousness (a central teaching of the Avatamska sutra) - Buddhism term
• spiritualism (in philosophy) ➜ 唯物